GENI Meta-Operations Center Spiral 2 Year-end Project Review

1. GENI Meta-Operations CenterSpiral 2 Year-end Project Review GlobalNOC at Indiana University PI: Jon-Paul Herron Co-PI: Luke Fowler Staff: CamiloViecco, Chris SmallStudents: Nick Baker, Jeff Catania, John Meylor 8/30/10

2. Project Summary • Goals for GMOC • Help GENI community define operational model • Provide system for collecting & sharing operational data with researchers and GENI operators • Provide useful GENI-wide operational visualizations and services • Spiral 2 Focus Areas • Additional Data collections (clusters and exemplar projects) • Cross-cluster Visualization • International Federated Visualization • Emergency Stop V1 August 31, 2010

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4. Accomplishments 1: Advancing GENI Spiral 2 Goals • Continuous Experimentation: GMOC’s focus is on enabling end-to-end support and operations for experiments crossing aggregates. Emergency shutdown, and slice visualizations directly support operationalizing of GENI prototypes • Integration: GMOC’s work integrates the operational information from multiple projects. The work to visualize slices once they span clusters will have clear benefits to GENI integration goals. • Instrumentation & Measurement: GMOC has actively participated in Instrumentation and Measurement discussions and planning Spiral2, as a potential user and contributor of measurement data. • Interoperability: GMOC doesn’t directly enable interoperability of control frameworks, but the GMOC data format should allow interoperating clusters to have interoperability of operational data as well. INSERT PROJECT REVIEW DATE

5. Accomplishments 2:Other Project Accomplishments • Emergency Stop Process V1: Reached consensus on Emergency Stop Process, now ready to implement • Slice data views: GMOC demonstrated first view • Portal Improvements: Several updates to GMOC portal • Data Collection improvements: • GpENI – opened up access for data collection, but depends on GMOC polling/collecting directly • ProtoGENI – Usage collections from HP switches, and topology via ProtoGENI API, but no slice data • International Federation: Provided GMOC software package to K-GENI, helped get it running, and updated software to allow for federated GMOC systems • R&E Networking interface: GMOC participated in the Quilt GENI conference, discussing operational impact of GENI on the RON community, and the things RONs might need to better support GENI • Instrumentation & Measurement: GMOC participated in the I&M workshop and discussions, as a potential consumer and provider of measurement data, and to share findings on formats and capabilities for data sharing • PerfSONAR workshop: GMOC participated in the PerfSONAR workshop, helping to represent a potential use for PerfSONAR instrumentation of GENI INSERT PROJECT REVIEW DATE

6. Issues • Interactions with other projects: • EnterpriseGENI/Openflow: (not originally on the list) collecting topology and usage for Openflow deployments. Also beginning to work with Openflow developers to open channel for data on flows. Likely to use GMOC visualization for GEC9 demo of Openflow. • ProtoGENI: Good progress on Emergency Stop, and on gathering backbone data. Now gathering topology via ProtoGENI API. Additional data will likely be very difficult. Slice data is key, but ProtoGENI has said this will be difficult. • ORCA: Making some progress. API is available, and working recently. Investigating what data is available through the API, and how difficult it would be to gather it • KanseiGENI: Have pointed us to ORCA to gather the info • Million Node GENI: don’t support GMOC data format. Have exported data, but data is not useful (Node ID, but no IP address, location, or other capabilities) • GMULab: Slow responses, but slow progress • MAX: Unresponsive, multiple contact attempts • Many open operational questions remain: • Overall operational architecture needs consensus, even if not total consensus • Expectations for post-spiral3 support/operations remains murky INSERT PROJECT REVIEW DATE

7. Plans • Spiral 2 • Demo for OpenFlow for GEC9 • Initial investigation of ORCA’s API • Spiral 3 • Additional Data Collection • INSTOOLS • OpenFlow • ORCA (depending on effort required) • ProtoGENI • Automated Emergency Stop with ProtoGENI • Better vis UI for large scale data • Better vis UI for inter-cluster slice view • How do we move from investigating, discussing, and collecting data to really operating (go production)? Issues around maintenance, change expectations, operational communication remain INSERT PROJECT REVIEW DATE